35:1Moreover Elihu answered and said,

35:2Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than *God's?

35:3For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned?

35:4I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee.

35:5Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.

35:6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

35:7If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand?

35:8Thy wickedness may affect a man as thou art, and thy righteousness a son of man.

35:9By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry; they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty:

35:10But none saith, Where is +God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night,

35:11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens?

35:12There they cry, and he answereth not, because of the pride of evil men.

35:13Surely *God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

35:14Although thou sayest thou dost not see him, judgment is before him, therefore wait for him.

35:15But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, doth not Job know his great arrogancy?

35:16For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge.

36:1And Elihu proceeded and said,

36:2Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet words for +God.

36:3I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Creator.

36:4For truly my words shall be no falsehood: one perfect in knowledge is with thee.

36:5Lo, *God is mighty, but despiseth not any; mighty in strength of understanding:

36:6He saveth not the wicked alive; but he doeth justice to the afflicted.

36:7He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne doth he even set them for ever; and they are exalted.

36:8And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,

36:9Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased.

36:10And he openeth their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

36:11If they hearken and serve him, they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

36:12But if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge.

36:13But the godless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them:

36:14Their soul dieth in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

36:15But he delivereth the afflicted in his affliction, and openeth their ear in their oppression.

36:16Even so would he have allured thee out of the jaws of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and the supply of thy table would be full of fatness.

36:17But thou art full of the judgments of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.

36:18Because there is wrath, beware lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee.

36:19Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!

36:20Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.

36:21Take heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

36:22Lo, *God is exalted in his power: who teacheth as he?

36:23Who hath appointed him his way? or who hath said, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?

36:24Remember that thou magnify his work, which men celebrate.

36:25All men look at it; man beholdeth it afar off.

36:26Lo, *God is great, and we comprehend him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

36:27For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,

36:28Which the skies pour down and drop upon man abundantly.

36:29But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the crashing of his pavilion?

36:30Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

36:31For with them he judgeth the peoples; he giveth food in abundance.

36:32His hands he covereth with lightning, and commandeth it where it is to strike.

36:33His thundering declareth concerning him; the cattle even, concerning its coming.

37:1Aye, my heart trembleth at this also, and leapeth up out of its place:

37:2Hear attentively the roar of his voice, and the murmur going forth from his mouth.

37:3He sendeth it forth under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

37:4After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency, and holdeth not back the flashes when his voice is heard.

37:5*God thundereth marvellously with his voice, doing great things which we do not comprehend.

37:6For he saith to the snow, Fall on the earth! and to the pouring rain, even the pouring rains of his might.

37:7He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.

37:8And the wild beast goeth into its lair, and they remain in their dens.

37:9From the chamber of the south cometh the whirlwind; and cold from the winds of the north.

37:10By the breath of *God ice is given; and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

37:11Also with plentiful moisture he loadeth the thick clouds, his light dispels the cloud;

37:12And they are turned every way by his guidance, that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the circuit of the earth,

37:13Whether he cause it to come as a rod, or for his land, or in mercy.

37:14Hearken unto this, Job; stand still and discern the wondrous works of *God.

37:15Dost thou know how +God hath disposed them, and how he causeth the lightning of his cloud to flash?

37:16Dost thou know about the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him that is perfect in knowledge?

37:17How thy garments become warm when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?

37:18Hast thou with him spread out the sky, firm, like a molten mirror?

37:19Teach us what we shall say unto him! We cannot order our words by reason of darkness.

37:20Shall it be told him if I would speak? if a man so say, surely he shall be swallowed up.

37:21And now men see not the light as it gleameth, it is hidden in the skies. But the wind passeth by and cleareth them.

37:22From the north cometh gold; with +God is terrible majesty.

37:23The Almighty, we cannot find him out: excellent in power, and in judgment, and in abundance of justice, he doth not afflict.

37:24Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.